Feature extraction for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis: Comparison between AIM, LPC, and MFCC

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 137-140

  Tsuzaki, Minoru ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDITORY MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; OPTIMAL UNIT SELECTIONS; PERFORMANCE BASED; PHYSICAL MODEL; UNIT SELECTION; VOWEL-LIKE SOUNDS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 85009282243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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